Quiet Glyphs: ASCII Aquarium

Turn your home screen into a quiet little world.

Every creature in Quiet Glyphs is built from tiny text characters. Up close it's ASCII; from across the room it's a whale gliding past. Each fish steers itself in real time, so the scene keeps changing instead of replaying a fixed clip.

◆ It notices you
• Tap an empty spot on your home screen and nearby creatures dart away; scenes with water effects add ripples.
• Every time you wake your screen, they scatter as if startled by the light.

◆ 7 aquatic scenes
• Sharks: hammerheads, reef sharks and whale sharks patrol the water
• Koi: kohaku, showa and ogon circle the pond
• Jellyfish: pulse, drift, rise
• School: hundreds of tiny fish turn as one, now and then scattered by a predator
• Whale: a humpback bigger than you'd expect, drifting by
• Manta rays: glide through the deep, then leap above the surface in a spray
• Anglerfish: in the pitch-black deep, only their lures glow

◆ Beautiful in light and dark
Every scene has a light and a dark version. Follow your system theme or pick one.

◆ Make it yours
More or fewer creatures, faster or slower, touch on or off — with a live preview in settings.

◆ Easy on battery
Stops completely when the wallpaper isn't visible, and drops its frame rate in power-saving mode.

◆ No permissions at all
No internet access, no data access, no ads. It knows nothing about what happens on your phone.

Tip for Samsung phones: in Light mode the lock-screen clock may stay white. Long-press the lock screen to change the clock color to a dark one.